“This longing of God’s to give us peace and assurance and a sense of well-being only awaits our willingness to cooperate with God’s limitless magnanimity.”
Greg Boyle, SJ., Tattoos of the Heart
Featured Event
Homegirls, Healing, & Wholeness
Tuesday, February 21 | Gesu Chapel
Mass: 5:15 pm | Dinner: 6:15 pm | Program: 7:00 pm
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Greg Boyle, SJ, founder of Homeboy Industries, joins JST for a conversation with Laura Miera, Homeboy Industries Educator, and JST Student, for a conversation about his new book, The Whole Language, accompanied by women who found faith, renewal, and community after gangs and incarceration. Fr. Greg's book will be available for purchase (cash only) at the event.
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What's Happening This Week at JST
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International Students & Scholars Advisor Visit
Wednesday, Feb. 22 | 9am-3pm | Cardoner
Melissa Heid and Raisa Velazquez Bonet from ISS will be on campus on Wednesday to talk with international students. International students can schedule times to meet with them in one-on-one appointments.
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Women 2 Women Tea w/ Homegirls, Christy & Jeanette
Wednesday, Feb. 22 | 3:00-4:00 pm
Manresa Lounge | Hosted by Laura Miera
Come enjoy tea and snack with Laura Miera and two homegirls, Christy and Jeanette, as they talk about their experiences with Homeboy Industries.
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Writing Labs for Academic Theology | Introduction to Academic Theology
Wednesday, Feb. 22 | 3-4:15 PM | Zoom Link
The writing program is beginning its semester of writing labs with “Introduction to Academic Theology” with Dr. Pravina Rodrigues. The workshop will cover foundational skills such as writing reflections, speed reading, close reading, and skimming.
Please register here: https://forms.gle/N2u2kyZZQ9Y6iqwb6
Questions about writing labs or coaching? Please contact the program director, Laura M. Dunn at ldunn@scu.edu.
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Memorial Mass for Joe Mueller, S.J.
Saturday, Feb. 25 | 10:30 am | St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
The Mass will also be live-streamed. Click here for the Livestream.
Following the service, everyone is invited to a reception at the Jesuit School of Theology (1735 Le Roy Ave, Berkeley, CA). Come join us in celebrating Joe's life.
Invitation to Participate
All are invited to participate in the music ministry for this Memorial. Rehearsals will be held in the JST Chapel on Thursday and Friday, February 23 and 24, 3-4:30 p.m. If possible, you are asked to attend at least one of the rehearsals.
On Saturday morning, February 25, we will meet at the church at 9:30 a.m. Please let Paul Kircher (pkircher@scu.edu) know if you would like to sing and/or play an instrument and whether you can attend one or both rehearsals.
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Included in this Week's Magis
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Kudos Corner
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Congratulations to MTS Student, Kristi Lentz Taylor, on the acceptance of her paper, "Evaluating the textbook Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives through the thematic lenses of James Cone's A Black Theology of Liberation", for the BC Race and Religion Conference!
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We want to celebrate our community's achievements! Please let us know if you have something to celebrate such as an award, a recognition, the completion of a major project, etc.
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Spiritual Formation & Liturgy
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Prayer Periods | Gesù Chapel
Tuesday to Friday, 12:30-1:15PM
Next week, from 12:30 PM until 1:15 PM, we will hold space for common, silent prayer in the chapel. We will toll the bell at the beginning of these prayer periods. Stop in for a moment or sit for the entire period!
Bibliodrama
Wednesday, March 1, 7 -9 PM
What is Bibliodrama?
On Wednesday, March 1, from 7-9 PM, we hope to gather 6-12 JST community members to participate in a lenten Bibliodrama. Susanne Rushmann, a trained facilitator, will support this group's engagement with Scripture.
Please inform Susanne or Stephen directly or utilize this form to share that interest: https://forms.gle/dTa1Dw1gCyGzdnCv7 |
Lay Retreat
Final Call! Share your Availability for Lay Retreat to support our reservation of a facility. Use the form or email (sszolosi@scu.edu) right away!
Jesuit Ordo
Download the new Jesuit Ordo App for free! The app furnishes daily notes for the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours in a clear format and special readings and the biographies of Jesuit saints on their feast days.
Ash Wednesday | February 22, 2023
Ashes will be distributed at the morning and evening liturgies.
Liturgy Presider Schedule
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Tuesday,
2/21 |
Wednesday,
2/22 |
Thursday,
2/23 |
Friday,
2/24 |
Saturday 2/25
8:30AM |
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Ndayisenga |
Martinez |
Havyarimana |
Ngwenya |
Connell |
| 5:15PM |
Greg Boyle |
Jayaraju |
Nyirenda*
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Fernandez |
No Liturgy |
*Deacon Alendro DaCosta Preaching
Common Home Corps
In partnership with faculty from Creighton and Loyola University Chicago, Catholic Climate Covenant is launching the Common Home Corps. As outlined below, Common Home Corps trains leaders to organize local Catholics, build Pope Francis’s “culture of encounter” by meeting with their bishop and other diocesan leaders, and advocate for climate action that lives the Church’s mission: enacting the Vatican’s Laudato Si’ Action Platform with focus on net zero carbon. Catholic Climate Covenant is the U.S. convener of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
The Covenant is now accepting applications from young leaders (aged 18-35) in select U.S. dioceses who seek to help the Church address the climate crisis by more deeply living its Catholic teaching. Those accepted into the Common Home Corps will:
1. Attend an in-person training program at Loyola University Chicago from June 15-June 19, 2023 (all expenses paid for)
2. Receive training in Catholic social teaching, the Vatican’s Laudato Si’ Action Platform, climate science, community organizing, and advocacy
3. Become a leader working 5-10 hours per month organizing local Catholics to meet with their bishop/other diocesan leaders and catalyze climate action (especially net zero carbon)
4. Be funded: Selected and trained leaders will receive a $3,000 annual stipend
Apply HERE by February 28, 2023
Save the Date
Tuesday Night Solidarity Supper Programming
Mass: 5:15 PM | Supper: 6:15 PM | Program: 7:00 PM
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February 28 | Screening of the Film, Descendant
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March 7 | Jerome Bible Commentary Editor Panel | JST Loyola | Live Stream
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March 14 | Arte de Lagrimas Exhibiton
Annual JST Talent Show
Friday, March 17, 2023 (doors open 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm) | Manresa and Compania
Sign Up Here
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Upcoming Conferences
RECongress
February 23-26, 2023 | recongress.org
The Los Angeles Religious Education Congress is the largest annual gathering of its kind in the world. This four-day event is held at the Anaheim Convention Center and is sponsored by the Office of Religious Education for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. RECongress began in 1956 as an institute for religious education teachers. Since then, RECongress has grown to include people of all ministries, vocations, and faiths.
If you are attending the Congress, don't miss out on JST's first-ever reception on Friday night at the Rise Rooftop Lounge overlooking Disneyland. Appetizers and drinks will be served at this hosted event! Register Here >>>
Climate & Environmental Justice Conference
April 27-28, 2023 | Santa Clara University
The Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative is pleased to announce the 2023 free conference, entitled “Climate & Environmental Justice Conference: Faith-based, community-based, and academic collaboration for action” to be held at Santa Clara University and online from April 27– 28, 2023. The conference will advance the work of organizing community-university alliances and partnerships to promote climate and environmental justice in Northern California, across Latin America, and throughout Jesuit higher education. See the preliminary program and stay tuned for future announcements about how to engage. Registration is open and it is free.
Check the conference website frequently for updates, and, please direct questions to environmentaljustice@scu.edu.
SCU Events
Exploring the Integration of Faith, Justice, and the Intellectual Life in Jesuit, Catholic Higher Education
As the first director of the Bannan Institute (now the Bannan Forum), Robert Senkewicz premised his original vision “on the notion that struggling with the question of our Catholic and Jesuit identity is one way in which we can become a better and more genuine university.” This issue of explore returns to and continues that vision.
Current Art Exhibitions at Santa Clara University
Threshold.
February 7 - March 16, 2023 | Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building | Artist: Daren Kendall
More Information
con. Text. Portraits by Bryan Ida | New Art Exhibition
January 24 - June 17, 2023 | de Saisset Museum | Artist: Bryan Ida
Winter Hours | January 24 - March 17 | Tues-Sun 11am-4pm
More Information
GTU Events
The Sixth Annual Borsch-Rast Lecture feat. Dr. Kate Barush
Friday, March 3 | 5:00PM | GTU Dinner Board Room | 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA
The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to host Dr. Kathryn Barush, Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, as the sixth annual Borsch-Rast Lecture for 2021 publication, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Visual Arts). Dr. Barush will be joined by Dr. Simon Coleman, who will be responding to her book. Dr. Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto and his most recent book is Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement.
Contact Sabrina Kennedy by February 21 by 5:00pm at skennedy@gtu.edu if you would like to attend in person.
Zoom registration found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sixth-annual-borsch-rast-lecture-tickets-520051166037
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
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GTU Graduate Student Conference on Women and Religion
When: All proposals must be submitted to Diane Saunders at wsr@ses.gtu.edu no later than the CFP deadline, March 1, 2023. The committee will contact you by March 24, 2023 to notify you of its decision. If your proposal is accepted, please be prepared to share a copy of your paper with your moderator and fellow panelists by March 31, 2023.
Where: This conference will take place in the Dinner Board Room, on the 3rd floor of the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library.
Please direct any questions to WSR Program Coordinator Diane Saunders at wsr@ses.gtu.edu
More information & Submission Form Link
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Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Conference 2023: Religious Experience and the Phenomenology of Nature
16th – 19th August 2023 | Hosted by the University of Galway and St. Angela’s College, Sligo
CFP deadline: March 15 2023 | More Information & Full Call for Papers
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Spring 2023 GTU CARe Writing Prize
Write an essay of 1200-1500 words on artwork, themes, and/or content from a current or upcoming Doug Adams Gallery exhibition for the chance to win $250!
Deadline for submissions is Monday, March 20, 9am (Pacific Time) and all papers should be sent to care@gtu.edu.
Find out more at www.gtu.edu/caregrants or email lwebster@gtu.edu with any questions!
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Summer 2023 Interreligious Research Grants | Madrasa-Midrasha Program
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has provided funding to the GTU in support of the Madrasa-Midrasha Program, a collaborative interreligious effort cosponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies and the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies. We are pleased to announce research grants for GTU students working on interreligious projects related to Judaism and/or Islam. Grants will range from $250 to $500 for individual projects and $500 to $1000 for joint projects, which are strongly encouraged.
Deadline: Monday, April 3, 2023 | More information & Submission Guidelines
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Community Events
Diocese of Oakland Job Fair
Saturday, March 4, 2023 | 10:00am - 12:00noon
St. Theresa Parish | 4850 Clarewood Drive Oakland, CA 94618
Career Connections
Preparing for What Comes Next!
Field Guide for Aspiring Chaplains: Introduction to CPE Webinar
February 28 | 11:00 am | Manresa Lounge
JST Student Life will be streaming this webinar in Manresa Lounge. See here for more details and information.
Jesuit High School Staff Visit
March 8 | Cardoner
Staff will come to speak with students about opportunities to teach at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, CA. Sign-up information will be available next week to schedule an appointment.
Career Cafe
March 20 and April 3 | 6:30-8:00pm | Manresa Lounge
It is time to get moving on career tasks in a comfortable and supportive environment. Do you need dedicated time to work on your CV, search for jobs, talk with Student Life staff? Come to Manresa Lounge on a Monday evening and spend time working to prepare for life after JST.
Career Opportunities
Religious Studies Teacher
De La Salle High School, Concord, CA | More Information & How to Apply
Ignatian Center Executive Director
Ignatian Spirituality Center, Seattle, WA | More Information & How to Apply
Tenure-Track Professorship | Practical/Pastoral Theology
Saint John's School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, MN | More Information & How to Apply
Application Review begins February 27, 2023
Resources
COVID-19 Vaccines & Other Immunizations
Please the SCU Prepared Site for all COVID Related Information
Free COVID-19 Vaccine Locations Near JST:
Mental Health Resources through SCU | CAPS 24/7
JST-SCU students have access to
- 24/7/365 Mental Health Support Line - 408-554-5220 (press 1 to reach the 24/7 support line)
- Free telehealth or off campus face-to-face counseling sessions
- Access to multiple mental health educational resources
See the Cowell Health Center for more details
Campus Safety Services
Campus Safety Services encourages students, faculty, and staff to be an active participant in your personal and community safety. The following safety reminders will help keep campus safety a priority:
- Always lock your vehicle and residence upon exiting and at night; if you live off-campus, consider investing in a doorbell camera device
- Never store valuables in your vehicle
- Use fortified locks when securing your bicycle or skateboard
- Be aware of your surroundings and report suspicious activity to Campus Safety and/or the Berkeley Police Department
- CSS: (408) 554-4441
- BPD: 911 or from a cell phone call 510-981-5911
- Prioritize and respect your own mental health; encourage others to do the same
Hours of Operation
Campus Safety Service is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have two shifts to serve you, 6a-6p and 6p-6a respectively. Our dispatch center is located in the Main Parking Structure (Building 714). Please contact us anytime at (408) 554-4441. You can also go to https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/
We're Hiring - Student Employee Positions Available
Please see the this page for information on openings for student employment.
JST Calendar Highlights
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